Not Necessarily Cervantes
Title | Not Necessarily Cervantes PDF eBook |
Author | Robert L. Hathaway |
Publisher | Juan de La Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1995 |
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Pastoral Themes and Forms in Cervantes's Fiction
Title | Pastoral Themes and Forms in Cervantes's Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Dominick L. Finello |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780838752555 |
"Pastoral Themes and Forms in Cervantes's Fiction explores the various pastoral dimensions of Cervantes's art, from his early Galatea, which is a pastoral novel, to his masterful Don Quijote de la Mancha. Dominick Finello here focuses on the pastoral's impact on the composition of Don Quijote: its rural backdrop of a rustic Spain; the literary inheritance of its characters and style; its dialogic structure, which reflects that of the pastoral novel; and the vital stimulus produced by Cervantes's direct observation of the effects of imaginative pastoral disguises and mimetic play on its characters, including bucolic games, the representation of eclogues and masques, and other such diversions. The blending of pastoral themes and forms into his fiction has led Cervantes to ring major changes on conventional patterns of the pastoral." "The pastoral's congenial interaction with the creativity of Don Quijote is apparent in the novel's settings and character conception. With regard to the settings, pastoral style in the Quijote focuses specifically on the geographical configuration and rural backdrop of Don Quijote's adventures and eventually places them in the context of the history of pastoral nomadism on the Iberian peninsula. With regard to characters, shepherds, goatherds, farmers, and other rural people appear everywhere in the Quijote; and Sancho Panza is the leading rustic personage from this group. Sancho's felicitous projection of pastoral life reflects his fundamental optimism. Don Quijote is linked to the literary shepherd through his discourse on the golden age, his imitation of the lovelord shepherd in the Sierra Morena episode of part 1, and the "Pastor Quijotiz" scheme, which signals his demise late in part 2. Dulcinea, Don Quijote's beloved, is conceived with both the rustic and literary dimensions of the pastoral heroine." "One of the essential features of the Quijote is its dialogic structure, which reflects that of the Renaissance academic colloquium and that of the pastoral novel. Another vital pastoral stimulus of Cervantes's art is his direct observation of the effects of imaginative pastoral disguises and mimetic play on his characters. The documented social customs involving pastoral mimesis (such as eclogues, masques, and games) indicate that pastoral expression and values have been integrated to a significant degree into the fabric of the lives of Cervantes's characters." "Cervantes's attitude toward the pastoral may be established through direct statements he made about pastoral authors, poems, and books. It may also be constituted through less direct means - such as the abrupt conclusion and subsequent disappearance of pastoral stories from the main narrative of the Quijote."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Substance of Cervantes
Title | The Substance of Cervantes PDF eBook |
Author | John G. Weiger |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2010-12-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521168342 |
A 1986 examination of the foundation upon which Cervantes constructed his works from La Galatea (1585) to Persiles y Sigismunda (1617).
Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote
Title | Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote PDF eBook |
Author | James A. Parr |
Publisher | Modern Language Association |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-06-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 160329189X |
This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Cervantes's Don Quixote highlights dramatic changes in pedagogy and scholarship in the last thirty years: today, critics and teachers acknowledge that subject position, cultural identity, and political motivations afford multiple perspectives on the novel, and they examine both literary and sociohistorical contextualization with fresh eyes. Part 1, "Materials," contains information about editions of Don Quixote, a history and review of the English translations, and a survey of critical studies and Internet resources. In part 2, "Approaches," essays cover such topics as the Moors of Spain in Cervantes's time; using film and fine art to teach his novel; and how to incorporate psychoanalytic theory, satire, science and technology, gender, role-playing, and other topics and techniques in a range of twenty-first-century classroom settings.
Cervantes: The Complete Exemplary Novels
Title | Cervantes: The Complete Exemplary Novels PDF eBook |
Author | Barry W. Ife |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | 745 |
Release | 2013-11-18 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1800345127 |
Originally published in four separate volumes, this publication sees all 12 Novelas Ejemplares as a single volume for the first time in English. Each story has an individual introduction, the original Spanish text with facing English translation and notes.
Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies
Title | Cervantes and His Postmodern Constituencies PDF eBook |
Author | Anne J. Cruz |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 312 |
Release | 2018-10-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317944518 |
The essays in this collection represent the first effort in Hispanism to address the conflicted status of Cervantes studies by interrogating the possibility of continued critical dialogue in the context of postmodern theories that threaten to divide into oppositional discourses. Comprising broad historical overviews as well as close readings of texts, and wielding the rhetoric of scientific detachment and of impassioned political commitments, the essays at once exemplify and critique multiple critical positions. The collection takes a meaningful and timely look at the formation of cervantismo from the early twentieth century to the prevailing debates on postmodernism and the current crisis of literary studies.
Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet
Title | Cervantes and the Burlesque Sonnet PDF eBook |
Author | Adrienne Laskier Martin |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2023-04-28 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0520328337 |
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.